Isaiah Canaan to start Game 5 for Bulls as battle of adjustments continues

By Sean HighkinApr 24, 2017

Going into Sunday's Game 4, Isaiah Canaan had played a total of 20 minutes for the Bulls since the All-Star break, almost entirely in garbage time. He almost doubled that in the Bulls' loss to the Boston Celtics Sunday, playing 34 minutes off the bench when Jerian Grant and Michael Carter-Williams proved untenable replacements for Rajon Rondo at point guard and Fred Hoiberg had nowhere else to turn.

Canaan wasn't spectacular, but he was at least serviceable, and with Rondo still out, he will get the start at point guard when the Bulls' first-round series goes back to Boston for Game 5 on Wednesday.

“I really thought he did a good job picking up the ball and pressuring the pickup point a full 94 feet,” Hoiberg said at practice Monday. “I thought his initial ball pressure was good. We have to get off to a much better start if we want to have any chance of winning another game in this series. That’s two games in a row now we’ve...

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